Do you think God ever asks “Don’t you want to meet me as I am?” We all want to be truly seen and known. But God is beyond our understanding yet invites us, actually insists on drawing us closer in relationship.
Who is the Lord, that I should hate him? Exodus 5:2
How can the God of infinite goodness have put up with Rwanda, the Holocaust and other devastating events throughout our history? Times like these make us question who is God? We think maybe I’m a fool to serve this God and why should I even bother to pray?
These are big issues, but at some point the God who truly is and was and is to come gets tired of being treated like an abstraction. God says don’t you want to meet me as I am? And since there’s no chance of our changing, without being challenged, God allows all kinds of evils and misadventures and difficulties, which usually hits us where it hurts the most. God has an uncanny capacity to put the divine finger on the one thing that we most love, as if to say, would you kindly give that to me? And our answer is usually not a chance!
I think we need to be bounced around a bit in life before we can really get into a deep level of the spiritual journey. This journey is a process and we’re each at a different level of the process. That’s why the question “Who is God?” is different for each of us.
And they took their journey out of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:12
Thank you, Lord, for being with me in the wilderness drawing me closer to You.
Smitten With Goodness 